Covid19 Situation in Outaouais
It is difficult to find covid-19 trend data over time at the local level for the Outaouais region. The Quebec government shows summaries but only the last few days of trends for regions. The Quebec Public Health agency (Institut national de santé publique du Québec, INSPQ) shows only cumulative snapshots by region and by Réseaux locaux de services (RLS, local service network), though detailed historical data at the regional and RLS levels are available from INSPQ with some digging. The COVID-19 Canada Open Data Working Group (CCODWG, opencovid.ca) provides time series data at the provincial and health region levels collected from official sources. However, none of these sources make trend data below the regional level easily accessible. Finally, the Centre intégré de santé et de services sociaux (CISSS) de l’Outaouais provides frequent (sometimes daily) snapshots by RLS and by municipality, but again no trends. The present project provides local trend data based on these snapshots and regional indicators based on the most complete available data.
Please note the caveats at the bottom of this page.
A separate page shows figures on the situation in Outaoauis schools.
Outaouais region totals
New cases
Active cases
Cumulative cases
Daily Tests
Positive tests
Test positivity
Deaths
Hospitalizations
Total hospitalizations
Vaccination
Outaouais & Ottawa (opencovid.ca)
Visualizations of key covid-19 statistics for Ottawa, including projections and wastewater surveillance, are available at 613covid.ca.
Average increase
Cumulative cases
Deaths
Average increase by RLS
Gatineau & Outaouais
Collines
Pontiac
Papineau
Vallée
Active cases by RLS
Gatineau & Outaouais
Collines
Pontiac
Papineau
Vallée
Cumulative cases by municipalities
Total & Gatineau
Collines
Papineau
Papineau (<20)
Vallée
Vallée (<20)
Pontiac
Information on this site
Explanatory notes
The HTML source for the CISSS Outaouais site is accessed daily, the tables are scraped and processed into a tidy dataset, to produce the local (municipal) figures on this site. (I began regularly downloading the HTML source in fall 2020, and used the Wayback Machine to get earlier snapshots.) For the regional and RLS levels, various official datasets are downloaded daily from Quebec government and INSPQ sites; for the data from before I began these daily downloads, I accessed the corresponding files in the CCODWG Covid19 Canada Archive. Some historical hospitalization data come from the Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux (MSSS). The latest opencovid.ca health region data are included for comparison. The source code for downloading and processing all data, and the resulting datasets, are available in the project GitHub repository.
Updates of this page usually occur after 12pm. If the figures do not show the latest data, reload this page in your web browser.
Last data revision: 2021-04-17 12:10:40
Last page update: 2021-04-17 12:24:12
Caveats
Users of the data presented here need to be aware of the following caveats:
While I strive to include the most recent and complete available data, there is no guarantee of data accuracy. I am aggregating what official sources have been reporting over time. I do try to correct obvious data input error in the local data, but I have not implemented an automatic error detection process.
At the municipal and RLS levels, official data do not report numbers of less than 6 precisely, for good privacy reasons. When “5 or less” are reported, I record this as 5 cases. Users must be aware that counts of 5 do not precisely reflect the actual situation at those levels, but refer to 1-5 cases.
Expressing vaccination doses as a percentage of the Outaouais population – I use the most recent 2020 estimate available – assumes that receivers of the vaccine are Outaouais residents and that they have received one dose only. These strong assumptions may be reasonable early in the vaccination campaign, but less so as time progresses.
Further, the CISSS Outaouais (local, municipal) data are subject to the following caveats:
The date and time in the dataset refer to when the CISSS Outaouais page was accessed, not when cases occurred.
The local trend data are not complete (i.e daily) for several reasons. First, due to a syncing glitch, I lost some HTML source files. Second, the CISSS Outaouais site is not updated every day. Third, the automatic downloads have not happened every day, either because my computer was turned off, or because my software for scheduling scripts has failed a few times. Since the snapshots include cumulative counts, this is not necessarily a problem, but it means that changes in local case counts cannot always be precisely dated. In the figures of these local data, “rugs” indicate dates for which the data are available.
Covid-19 data sources
| CISSS Outaouais: Fr / En |
| Gouvernement du Québec: situation / vaccination / schools / school list / zones |
| INSPQ: cases / vaccination / variants / timeline |
| MSSS: cases / hospitalizations |
| Government of Canada: cases / vaccination |
| CCODWG (opencovid.ca): cases & other |
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